Posts tagged "flex-10"

55 posts

HP Virtual Connect 4.01 Update: What's New

Jul 19, 2013

HP has released a significant firmware update to its Virtual Connect line of HP Blade chassis switches. The main highlights are Dual-hop FCoE support and enhancements to QoS and bandwidth optimisation. This is part 1 of a 6 part post on HP Virtual Connect 4.01: 1. ( 2. ( 3. ( 4. ( 5. ( 6. ( The full list of new features is: | Dual-hop FCoE Support | Extending convergence for Flex-10 and FlexFab...

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HP Virtual Connect in tunnel mode breaks vCloud Director Network Isolation (vCDNI)

Mar 21, 2013

VMware and HP have both released advisories which say you shouldn't use HP Virtual Connect in tunnel mode if you are using vCloud Director Network Isolation (vCDNI) which is MAC-in-MAC encapsulation. There are two network modes available with Virtual Connect, Tunnel Mode and Mapped Mode. When using Tunnel Mode, Virtual Connect passes all tagged and untagged packets through the Virtual Connect s...

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New HP Emulex drivers and firmware released for VMware ESXi 5.x

Mar 7, 2013

Emulex has released a new set of drivers and firmware for use on Gen8 and G7 HP Servers including blades with both VMware ESXi 5.0 and 5.1. Driver: Emulex be2net nic driver version _4.2.327.0_ which is included in the HP Custom Image for VMware ESXi 5.1 February 2013: ( and HP Custom Image for VMware ESXi 5.0.0 Update 2 February 2013: ( or can be downloaded separately from ( Emulex has also rel...

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vSphere Networking and Converged IO with Blade Servers - a UK VMUG presentation

Nov 15, 2012

My presentation was titled vSphere Networking and Converged IO with Blade Servers. I discussed how converged networking incorporating 10GE and FCoE is become more important as we try to utilise bandwidth more efficiently which is especially important with blade servers which have limited IO expansion. I explained the architecture of Cisco UCS and HP Virtual Connect as examples and how they can...

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Updating HP Blade Chassis Firmware with HP Smart Update Manager

Sep 27, 2012

All of these components require firmware to run and many of them are from different manufactures such as Nic cards which can be made by Broadcom, Intel or Emulex. Managing this firmware can be a frustrating and time consuming process which adds another management layer separate from the Operating System, applications and even HP drivers installed on the actual blade servers. HP has previously h...

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HP G7/8 Blades: New Emulex firmware 4.1.450.7 released

Sep 10, 2012

HP has released a new firmware version _4.1.450.7_ of its Emulex OneConnect 10Gb Ethernet Controller which is used in HP G7 and G8 Blades. This is a standalone image so not part of the ( release which is unfortunate. The new firmware release notes state the following: Added support for the following operating systems: Resolved Issues from Firmware Version 4.1.402.20: I’ve updated my post: (

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HP releases Virtual Connect 3.70 & Onboard Administrator 3.60 firmware

Sep 10, 2012

HP has released its latest Virtual Connect Firmware which is used in HP c-Class Chassis with Flex-10, FlexFabric, VC Enet and FC Module interconnect modules. This release adds support for some new hardware: You can now rollback from a previous firmware upgrade without having to delete the VC domain which is good news. There are also number of management enhancements such as _Advanced telemetry...

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HP G7 Blades: New Emulex firmware 4.1.402.20 released

Jul 2, 2012

The June HP Service Pack for ProLiant 2012.06.0(B) had a _4.1.402.8_ firmware version so it looks like it only had a lifespan of a month and has now been superseded by _4.1.402.20_. Unfortunately it doesn't look like the HP VMware Recipe for June has been updated ( The installation is as before and requires you to boot off an .ISO and update manually. (I have a dream that one day...) Before Jun...

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HP G7 Blade new Emulex be2net ESX(i) drivers 4.1.334.0 now supported

Jun 6, 2012

VMware recently released a ( for both ESX(i) 4.x and ESXi 5.x for the Emulex OneConnect 10Gb Ethernet Controller which is used in HP G7 Blades. These new drivers were not supported by HP when released but HP has now certified this driver and included it its new ( ESX(i) 4.x ( ESXi 5.x ( I’ve updated my post: (

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HP releases Virtual Connect firmware 3.60

Jun 6, 2012

HP has released a new version of its Virtual Connect Firmware 3.60 which is used in HP c-Class Chassis with Flex-10, FlexFabric, VC Enet and FC Module interconnect modules. ( This release adds support for the following server models, HBAs and Adapters: This update has fixed quite a number of bugs, 14 are listed in the ( but there are 7 new issues reported so make sure you read the notes carefully.

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